Following is a summary of articles spanning a 31 day period,
beginning at 01 May 2003 00:18:27 GMT and ending at
31 May 2003 22:58:33 GMT.
Notes
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- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
NOTE If you reply to a 10 line question with a 2 line answer, then your
conscience can remain be clear. Be honest with yourself.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
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- Please do not send comments about the use of this software in your
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Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
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- Modest enhancements by Dr. Pablo MD, PhD, IUD, Bach.Vet.Sci.
Totals
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Posters: 358
Articles: 1221 (237 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 339
Volume generated: 3164.7 kb
- headers: 932.4 kb (19,684 lines)
- bodies: 2144.6 kb (65,080 lines)
- original: 1147.0 kb (36,636 lines)
- signatures: 86.5 kb (2,127 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.535
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.4
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 162 posters
s: 6.7 posts
Posts per thread: 3.6
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 101 threads
s: 4.4 posts
Message size: 2654.1 bytes
- header: 782.0 bytes (16.1 lines)
- body: 1798.6 bytes (53.3 lines)
- original: 961.9 bytes (30.0 lines)
- signature: 72.5 bytes (1.7 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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64 145.2 ( 45.0/ 63.2/ 22.4) Mark D. Stock
55 144.1 ( 53.7/ 81.3/ 37.9) Jonathan Leffler
42 110.7 ( 36.8/ 65.0/ 6.0) p...@oninit.com
37 89.2 ( 25.8/ 63.5/ 16.0) Murray Wood
29 51.2 ( 19.5/ 29.3/ 6.3) John Carlson
26 43.3 ( 17.1/ 26.2/ 13.9) rkusenet
25 73.7 ( 17.5/ 56.2/ 10.7) Jack Parker
25 59.0 ( 17.9/ 41.0/ 10.2) Neil Truby
20 49.8 ( 16.9/ 32.9/ 9.8) ka...@bloomberg.net
19 39.3 ( 13.6/ 25.7/ 8.0) Rob Vorbroker
These posters accounted for 28.0% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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145.2 ( 45.0/ 63.2/ 22.4) 64 Mark D. Stock
144.1 ( 53.7/ 81.3/ 37.9) 55 Jonathan Leffler
110.7 ( 36.8/ 65.0/ 6.0) 42 p...@oninit.com
89.2 ( 25.8/ 63.5/ 16.0) 37 Murray Wood
73.8 ( 9.2/ 64.5/ 5.8) 13 Tsutomu Ogiwara
73.7 ( 17.5/ 56.2/ 10.7) 25 Jack Parker
72.2 ( 18.0/ 54.2/ 28.4) 18 Michael Krzepkowski
66.1 ( 0.8/ 65.3/ 65.3) 1 Tim
59.0 ( 17.9/ 41.0/ 10.2) 25 Neil Truby
52.4 ( 11.4/ 41.0/ 11.1) 17 Bill Dare
These posters accounted for 28.0% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.957 ( 1.6 / 1.7) 6 Serge Rielau
0.950 ( 5.8 / 6.1) 5 Brandt Edwin
0.944 ( 16.7 / 17.7) 8 Oxow
0.892 ( 19.7 / 22.1) 5 Tisha Shirah
0.888 ( 19.7 / 22.2) 6 Helen Wong
0.864 ( 23.3 / 27.0) 5 Jonathan Leffler
0.863 ( 12.3 / 14.3) 5 ja...@luzdelsur.com.pe
0.816 ( 7.3 / 8.9) 9 Gustavo Tobares
0.815 ( 1.3 / 1.6) 5 Ferro
0.796 ( 33.8 / 42.5) 6 Ernst Meyer
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.251 ( 2.4 / 9.7) 10 David Williams
0.251 ( 16.0 / 63.5) 37 Murray Wood
0.248 ( 10.2 / 41.0) 25 Neil Truby
0.216 ( 6.3 / 29.3) 29 John Carlson
0.208 ( 0.9 / 4.3) 9 Obnoxio The Clown
0.200 ( 3.2 / 16.1) 6 Greg Mitchell
0.190 ( 10.7 / 56.2) 25 Jack Parker
0.101 ( 0.9 / 8.8) 5 sco...@dinecollege.edu
0.092 ( 6.0 / 65.0) 42 p...@oninit.com
0.089 ( 5.8 / 64.5) 13 Tsutomu Ogiwara
Top 10 Largest Signatures
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(bytes)
size / lines Posts Signed Address
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( 4857 / 108) 8 2 John_Tho...@ao.uscourts.gov
( 2992 / 89) 2 1 Mohan Natraj
( 1905 / 68) 3 1 e...@herber-consulting.de
( 1351 / 22) 1 1 Andrew Hamm
( 1233 / 22) 29 2 John Carlson
( 914 / 48) 4 4 Thomas.Mieslin...@gls-germany.com
( 593 / 12) 64 64 Mark D. Stock
( 483 / 10) 1 1 les...@advancedatatools.com
( 381 / 6) 2 2 Richard Spitz
( 348 / 13) 3 3 Clive Eisen
if you quote previous article in a non-standard way, it may look
like you have a signature containing more text than reality.
57 posters (15%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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31 Where to find dbselect()?
22 Informix versus oracle
21 Bloody ERP schema
18 4GL Help
17 Search by index vs. sequential scan
16 a trigger question
15 please revive project 4GL++, using 4gl for Windows and New Era
14 Changing of owner of a table
14 long transaction aborted
13 problems installing informix 7.31 on aix
These threads accounted for 14.8% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
105.9 ( 9.1/ 96.8/ 29.0) 11 recurring high checkpoints on the 1st of the month
97.8 ( 11.5/ 85.7/ 52.9) 13 problems installing informix 7.31 on aix
75.5 ( 24.9/ 32.4/ 9.9) 31 Where to find dbselect()?
75.3 ( 17.0/ 58.3/ 25.1) 21 Bloody ERP schema
74.1 ( 2.8/ 71.0/ 17.9) 4 SNMP
67.0 ( 1.5/ 65.5/ 65.3) 2 HELP: Informix doesn't come up anymore
62.1 ( 5.1/ 57.1/ 11.0) 7 Performance & checkpoint
47.5 ( 17.7/ 29.2/ 17.2) 22 Informix versus oracle
45.7 ( 13.3/ 30.4/ 11.6) 17 Search by index vs. sequential scan
41.1 ( 5.7/ 35.4/ 20.8) 8 Technical Query
These threads accounted for 21.9% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
1.000 ( 7.1/ 7.1) 6 REPLY NEEDED
0.999 ( 13.5/ 13.5) 6 RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON
0.778 ( 3.5/ 4.5) 5 DB2 to Informix DB connectivity
0.728 ( 7.3/ 10.1) 6 IDS 7.31.UC2 Crashed...
0.710 ( 6.3/ 8.9) 6 [Fwd: Re: a trigger question]
0.709 ( 23.4/ 33.1) 5 DBD::Informix Update statements crashing engine
0.706 ( 3.8/ 5.4) 5 How to get license number from CD
0.697 ( 10.0/ 14.4) 8 Why it takes long
0.691 ( 4.2/ 6.0) 5 "Slow System" Problem
0.680 ( 3.6/ 5.3) 7 Restore Level 0 NT
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.300 ( 29.0 / 96.8) 11 recurring high checkpoints on the 1st of the month
0.298 ( 4.1 / 13.6) 10 ONTAPE backup on disk: limit of 2Gb
0.294 ( 3.7 / 12.6) 6 Informix ODBC on AIX ??
0.270 ( 1.9 / 7.1) 10 Link to a table on another DB
0.265 ( 2.4 / 9.0) 5 Informix 9.4 fails on Red Hat: Beware of glibc-2.3.2-4.80
0.257 ( 1.9 / 7.4) 9 Stored Programs/Triggers
0.248 ( 3.3 / 13.2) 11 UK Companies Using Informix
0.237 ( 6.6 / 28.0) 5 tables activity
0.216 ( 2.8 / 12.8) 9 NUMCPUVPS on a box having multiple Informix Instances
0.193 ( 11.0 / 57.1) 7 Performance & checkpoint
85 threads (25%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
7 comp.lang.java.databases
6 comp.databases.ibm-db2
2 comp.databases.oracle.server
2 comp.lang.perl.misc
1 microsoft.public.vb.crystal
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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3 Anthony Presley
2 rkusenet
2 Hans Forbrich
2 Obnoxious the troll
1 qwerty
1 Fan Ruo Xin
1 p...@oninit.com
1 Bob Mariotti
1 PM \(pm3iinc-nospam\)
1 maroch...@gmx.de